Internet Edition. Bribe defaces bureaucracyMaswood Alam KhanIf someone as an official can process five files in a day but has ten files in front of him the person who has an emergency to get his file processed will pay him some incentives to get his file cleared first; it is a simple bribery. But it is a clear extortion when the official stops processing even five files without the incentive. Such extortion-like bribery is an established reality in Bangladesh as is in many other countries like India, Pakistan, China, and Indonesia where bribe is deemed the best lubricant of government machinery.The Oxford English Dictionary defines corruption as a willingness 'to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain'. There is a difference between bribing an official to do something legal (e.g. bribing a civil servant to speed up the process of acquiring a document of some sort) and bribing an official to do something illegal (e.g. bribing a teacher to give a student a good mark in an ...
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